Friday, August 31, 2012

America is the most blessed nation on earth. Dedicated to God by the founders.
So God shielded by a powerful hedge of national protection.
Following God = prosperity, power, peace, and security.

When God is replaced by pursuit of idols and gain…
Shield removed. Protective hedge gone. Result - 9/11.

ISRAEL

Isaiah 9:10

The bricks have fallen down,

but we will rebuild with dressed
stone;

the fig trees have been felled,
but we will replace them with cedars.

That is what we will do.

In The Harbinger, Cahn wrote, “These words were first uttered by leaders in Israel and in response to a limited strike by Assyria on the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali – an attack the prophet makes clear is actually part of a limited judgment by God against apostasy. It wasn’t meant to destroy the nation, but
to awaken it.”

God was replaced by pursuit of idols and gain. Israel didn’t take the cue.

Instead, the response from the people in Isaiah 9:10 is one of defiance. The brick buildings were toppled, but they vowed to build bigger and better. The little sycamore trees may have been uprooted, but they vowed to plant bigger and better cedars in their place. They were defiant against God.

God, speaking through Isaiah, explained what would happen as a result of their pride, arrogance, and failure to heed the harbinger, bigger and more potent attacks would follow. Because neither the Northern Kingdom of Israel nor the Southern Kingdom of Judah truly repented. Israel was eventually swept away by Assyrian invaders; Judah was carried off into captivity by the Babylonians for 70 (7x10) years.

Why 70?
Turning from God to money and idols, they failed to follow His command to let the land rest every 7th year.
Result: God forced them to make up the time by a long Sabbatical.

The Sabbatical created rest in
all areas:

Financial, economic

Labor, employment

Consumption, production, trade

During the Sabbatical:

Production decreased - fields lay
fallow

Labor greatly reduced

Fields become, in part, possessed
by all

Buying and selling of land’s
produce restricted

Fruits of labor abandoned

Credit cancelled, debt wiped away

AMERICA

9/11/2001
- God removed the hedge of protection.

September 12, 2001

Senate Majority
Leader Tom Daschle

In an effort to bring the nation hope and reassurance, he read from the Isaiah 9:10 passage:

The bricks have fallen down,

but we will rebuild with dressed stone;

the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.

That is what we will do.

“Daschle has no idea what he is doing here. He thinks he’s offering comforting words to a grief-stricken people, but he is actually embracing the spiritually defiant and arrogant words of the children of Israel, proclaiming the ancient and ominous vow of the leaders of that nation. He doesn’t realize it, but he is actually inviting more judgment on the nation.”

the fig trees have been felled,
but we will replace them with cedars

Daschle didn’t know there was an actual sycamore tree felled by 9/11 at Ground Zero, and that it bore the same name as the fallen tree of Isaiah 9:10.
“Fig” is English translation of Hebrew word “shakam,” which means “fig-mulberry.” It is our modern day “sycamore” tree.
A few years later, someone donated an “Erez” tree (today called a “cedar” tree) which was planted where the fig/sycamore tree used to be.

Sept. 14, 2001

On the third day after 9/11, a construction worker, standing in the ruins, saw a 20 foot cross, perfectly shaped, created by cast iron beams from the fallen towers. It became known as The Cross of Ground Zero.

Rather than turning to God, America tried to fix the problem with military and politics
o The Dept. of Homeland Security was established.
o War on Terror (Afghanistan, Iraq) - cost billions - diverted from investment.
o War on Iraq raised oil prices, and drained more money, skyrocketing National Debt.

3 Years Later

Sept. 11, 2004

The Vice President, in a speech,
also quoted Is. 9:10 - by accident.

John Edwards read the same passage.

July 5, 2004

The bricks have fallen down,

but we will rebuild
with dressed stone;

A 20-ton Gazit stone, quarried out of the Adirondack Mountains in New York, was placed, as a cornerstone, on Ground Zero, where the fallen bricks had laid.

FOLLOW THE MONEY

Sept. 11, 2001

Wall Street shut down - for 6 days.

Sept. 17, 2001

Wall Street opened and suffered the
largest point crash at that point in Wall Street history.

The progression of judgment advances in times of calamity and crisis, but equally in times of apparent recovery, normalcy, and resurgence, booming economies, and prosperity. Whether above or below the surface, the progression continues.

Would America head toward God, or toward judgment?

Sept. 11, 2008

ECOMOMIC FALL - 7
years after 9/11:

Early in Sept. 2008

Half the U.S. mortgage market was
backed by the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation.

Sept. 7, 2008

Seeing they were teetering on edge
of collapse, the govt. seized control of them.

Sept. 9, 2008

Lehman Brothers - major financial
firm, lost 45% of its value.

Sept. 10, 2008

Lehman Brothers announced loss of 4
billion dollars.

Sept. 11, 2008

Lehman Brothers stock took a deep
plunge.

Federal
Reserve set up emergency meeting.

Sept. 12, 2008

Govt. informs Lehman Brothers it
won’t save them

- 7 years after Isaiah 9:10
announced by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

President Obama, one month after his inauguration, the first time he addressed Congress and the nation said,
“I want every American to know this….We will rebuild.”

Commentary on Is. 9:10 - “The nation boasted that they would rebuild their devastated country.”
Pres. Obama - “We will rebuild. We will recover.”

Commentary on Is. 9:10 - “…and make it stronger and more glorious than ever.”
Pres. Obama - “And the United States of America will emerge stronger than ever before.”

HISTORY OF AMERICA’S BIRTH AS IT RELATES TO 9/11

April 30, 1789
- America’s first national capital was in New York City.

Bells rang, calling the nation to church to commit the govt. to the holy protection and blessing of God.

Written on the statue of George Washington, facing the New York Stock Exchange:
“On this site in Federal Hall, April 30, 1789 George Washington took the oath as first President of the United States of America.”
Statue of George is a memorial and witness of the day the warning was given, right in front of the New York Stock Exchange - the symbol of America’s prosperity, as it collapsed.

After Pres. Washington gave his inaugural address, he led the Senate and House of Representatives, on foot, from the Federal Building, to a little stone church (St. Paul’s Chapel) for prayer and dedication. They prayed for two hours.

• Originally, the little church faced the opposite direction from where it sits today.

• To walk into the chapel, you’d have to walk through Ground Zero.

• Ground Zero was a field, owned by the church, which stretched between the church and the water.

Ancient Principal:
“The ground of dedication becomes the ground of calamity….the judgment returns to the ground of consecration.”

Sept. 11, 2001

Every building around the church collapsed,
but the church didn’t.

The sycamore tree shielded it from force of the implosion and
flying wreckage of the falling towers.

After 9/11, people were drawn to St. Paul’s Chapel. It became a spiritual focal point for the community. The iron fence around it was covered with pictures, prayers, messages, etc.

DIANE’S EXTRAPOLATION AND CONJECTURE

God likes to use 7 year cycles.

9 / 11 / 2001 -
Protection removed, America attacked.

Sept.
2008 - Economy turns
rocky.Unusual natural disasters hit the
U.S. semi-regularly and the economy economy looks like a roller-coaster, often dipping in September. Impending financial disaster hangs over the nation, and the world.

I think God is waiting 7 years for America to turn back to Him. Each year, unprecedented events hit.

So if America, as a nation, does not return to God….

9 / 11 / 2015 -
CRASH!BOOM!

All threats hanging over America’s head which have been pushed off into the future come to fruition.

Yesterday, a friend called me and said, “I need you to entertain me so I don’t
pass out from a possible concussion.” That’s a new one.

He has a sensitive vagus nerve,
which occasionally results in him passing out. He accidentally hurt his hand
while doing chores, and the pain caused his nerve to flare and he passed out,
smashing face-first into a hard floor. Waking up, with glasses broken, face
hurting, and extremely dizzy, he laid down on his back as sitting or standing
made him dizzy. Laying on the floor with nothing to do, we both figured that
until his mom arrived to take him to the doctor, keeping him awake was
probably a good idea. (It’d also allow me to monitor him, in case he
suddenly stopped sounding coherent or quit responding entirely.)

So I swung into action, located various story-jokes about
cats and dogs on my PC. We laughed and wiped tears from our eyes
until he said it no longer made him dizzy to sit up.

He was fine, but if he hadn’t been, my entertainment could have saved his life!

We got to thinking how much odder things would have been if he had lost
consciousness, because I live in the U.S. and he lives in Canada, so a 911 call
would get me an American emergency dispatch agent. I probably would have
called our mutual friend in Toronto, who could dial 911 and get through to
Canadian Emergency Dispatch. What a call of confusion that would be…

DISPACH: 911. What’s your emergency?

TORONTO FRIEND: My friend might have a concussion and
just lost consciousness.

DISPACH: And what is your location?

TORONTO FRIEND: Well, I’m in Toronto, but my friend is
in Manitoba.

DISPACH: Ma’am we only take serious calls.

TORONTO FRIEND: I am serious! My friend hit his
head when he passed out a few minutes ago.

DISPACH: So you were on the phone with him when he
passed out?

TORONTO FRIEND: No. He was alone. Are you
listening?! He is all by himself, in his apartment, and likely has a
concussion!

DISPACH: Please stay calm Ma’am. So then he
called you from what address? What address did he call you from?

TORONTO FRIEND: He didn’t call me. He called our
friend in the U.S.

DISPACH: So your friend is in the U.S.?

TORONTO FRIEND: No. He’s in Manitoba, but he
called our actress-friend in America to keep him entertained and awake until
his mom could drive him to the doctor!

Need to stay conscious? Give me a call and I’ll keep you laughing until
you are safe!